Marjorie Forster has been involved in research administration for over forty years. Currently she is the Assistant Vice President for Research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. In this position Marjorie is responsible for the development and implementation of an International Global Health Program, Export Control, Research Compliance and Training. Previously she was responsible for the management and supervision of Research Administration that encompassed grants and contracts, corporate and clinical trial agreements, intellectual property management and conflict of interest. Previous positions include: Director, Office of Sponsored Programs-Academic at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and Director of Grants Management and Fiscal Affairs, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, School of Public Health.

Marjorie has been an active participant as an officer, speaker and program coordinator on both a national and regional level for NCURA. Marjorie served as national Treasurer of NCURA. For Region V she served as Chair, and organized and chaired regional meetings in both Region II and V. Throughout her membership in NCURA Marjorie has made numerous presentations for both workshops and sessions at the national and regional levels. Marjorie is the recipient of the NCURA Region II 2009 Distinguished Service Award.

Marjorie has also been active in AUTM, SRA and AAMC, Group on Business Affairs. For AUTM she served as Vice President for Communications and was instrumental in the development of the AUTM Technology Transfer Practice Manual and served as its Editor for Edition I, II and Part 1 of Edition III. The AUTM Survey is used as the gold standard for measuring the success of technology transfer in academic institutions and during her tenure as VP she was responsible for the initiation of the survey and for the first five years. Marjorie was the recipient of the AUTM President's Award in 1995 for her work on the AUTM Technology Transfer Practice Manual and in 2006 for her overall work, services and dedication to AUTM. In 1985 she received the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Texas Medical Branch Chapter of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.

Marjorie received a Diploma in Business Administration from the Wirral Polytechnic College, UK and attended the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School course on Management Development. In addition, she attended the NTL, Bethel, Maine course on "Managing Organizational and Personal Conflict", and the University of Maryland Baltimore Executive Development course. Through AUTM Marjorie attended the Basic Licensing Course and the Start-ups, Equity and Company Formation Course.